Rensen tracks down and visits McCall at his apartment, posing as a police officer, and later makes an unsuccessful attempt to capture him. Mandy tells him what she knows about the 'black man' who had come to visit Alina in the hospital. Rensen visits Mandy, questioning her about who could have killed Slavi. Vladimir Pushkin, Slavi's boss and a powerful Russian mafia kingpin, sends his enforcer, Teddy Rensen, to find and eliminate the culprit. Slavi refuses, so McCall kills Slavi and his men. McCall visits Alina's hospital room and speaks with her friend, Mandy, then visits Slavi and offers to buy Alina's freedom. One night, Alina is hospitalized after being beaten by her pimp, Slavi. Robert McCall lives in Boston, working at a Home Mart hardware store while spending some late nights reading in a diner where he befriends Alina, a teenage prostitute working under the name Teri for the Russian mafia. Nonetheless, it became a commercial success with a worldwide gross of over $192 million on a production budget of $55–73 million.Ī sequel was released on July 20, 2018, with Washington, Wenk and Fuqua returning. It received mixed reviews from critics, who praised the visual style, direction, acting, soundtrack, and action sequences but criticized its depictions of violence and plot. The Equalizer had its world premiere at 2014 Toronto International Film Festival on September 7, 2014, and was released worldwide on September 26, 2014, in conventional and IMAX theaters.

Principal photography began in June 2013 in Massachusetts. Marine turned DIA intelligence officer who reluctantly returns to action to protect a teenage prostitute from members of the Russian mafia. Written by Richard Wenk, it stars Denzel Washington, Marton Csokas, Chloë Grace Moretz, David Harbour, Bill Pullman and Melissa Leo. The Equalizer is a 2014 American vigilante action film directed by Antoine Fuqua, loosely based on the 1980s TV series of the same name.

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